Am I understanding that Finnish has a way to combine words without being considered to be a compound? My very limited exposure to compound words (through German) was the very idea of mashing the words together made them compound.

Fuuuuck I rented that game so much back then. If it wasn’t available every other weekend at my local video store it was 100% my fault.

Ah, well that's what almost always ends up happening, doesn't it... The only thing that legitimately trickles down in this fucking system is costs to consumers lol

The answer is very location dependent, and often multifaceted. However here in Canada it’s a combination of neglecting affordable housing construction for decades, a huge uptick in immigration raising demand in some areas, a total lack of political willpower (most of our MPs report housing income, many actual landlords), and an economy that’s over-leveraged on real estate in general.

Hey!

I read it in the sense that they were hurting for plasma donations in particular, and that because they can store it for longer, a single donation has more potential impact, not that they only took plasma donations.

Man, I dip it in ketchup like a literal toddler.

It was self-fulfilling for me. I started self-hosting and messing with networking before I went into IT. I thought I’d be in a very different field until ~10 years ago.

Keyword “many”. Not all, and if you do find some data that can point to that direction, I can’t find anything concrete that points towards only 5-15% realistically could work without physical presence, I’ll gladly take it. Hell, remember the height of the pandemic measures, when only “essential” stuff was still running? That was still a shitton of people.

Your food needs a kitchen and a delivery pickup point. That point has to be decently close to all addresses that could be delivered to, or nobody would want to deliver, so that’s a bunch of physical kitchens already. Some of the point of restaurants is also the social gathering aspect, so you’re completely alienating a whole swathe of consumers - not everyone wants to eat alone at home.

Some business, or hell, even personal needs are not solved by signing up for yet another SaaS. Some companies have regulatory requirements/compliance. Others’ currently very simple operating costs would go through the roof doing so. My programmer, software architecture, security oriented mind also is screaming a little bit at the idea of a mom and pop bakery ran by two sextuagenarians now having to worry about keeping their Wordpress/WooCommerce up to date and secure. Why would I want to give my data and personal information to a bunch of random internet companies when I can have the same service without the data breach risk at the store down the road?

Many things are easier to source locally. Not everything is easy to find on the internet. Ever tried to find some odd screw for some obscure appliance by browsing pictures lol? Much easier to walk into my department store and physically compare. Another example, I was trying to find a Guitar Hero controller online. It ended up being much, much easier to find one at a decent price by looking up secondhand stores and thrift shops’ electronics sections - found one in a matter of a couple of visits for like $30. Online, I can’t find one under $120 right now.

Slightly off subject (or is it?), but I would also strongly push you to try and consume locally when possible rather than throwing even more money towards Amazon, Uber et al. Amazon in particular is an insane multinational-sized loss leader.

I just answered your question. If one wants latest up to date, LTS release-based distros are just not an option. You do you lol.

FWIW, I only reach out for Flatpak if I can’t find something natively. Unless you just use your DE as is without changing the look of things, making your apps look consistent is made pretty complicated by the requirement for your theme to be repackaged and distributed on flatpak. The sandboxed nature also can get annoying for certain types of apps (e.g. IDEs which tend to reach out for external tooling pretty often, etc). I also tend to trust my distro’s packagers a bit more than randos on flathub, but maybe that’s just me.

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Ffs

I'll need a source about that "most" loans having a penalty. I thought the vast majority of car loans were open loans. At least, the couple of times I looked around for car financing, most were.